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‘Flow’ - day 7 - My Twitter thousands

March 30th, 2008 · Comments

Day 7 - The flow rises, but as it gets faster I just want more… I wonder what Scoble’s flow is like…
Here are my previous flow entries so you’re up to speed:

Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
Day 6 (no post)

I’m visiting my in-laws this weekend so haven’t been spending much time in the flow this [...]

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Tags: Education · Flow · Prediction · Social Networking · Software Development · Twitter · Web Services · XMPP · iofy

This morning’s bugs with getting in to the ‘flow’ - starting day 5

March 28th, 2008 · Comments

Day 5 - 7:30AM EDT, 10 TPM (Tweets Per Minute)…
Links: Day 1 - Day 2 - Day 3 - Day 4 - http://twitter.com/sol - http://solyoung.com

This morning’s Twitter experience has found some bugs in the system. Last night I added a few hundred friends but didn’t go through my email for add announcements… Doing that [...]

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Tags: Education · Etiquette · Flow · QA · Social Networking · Twitter · XMPP

Twitter ‘Flow’ - Day 4 - Application Ideas and Metrics

March 27th, 2008 · Comments

Day 4 brings inspiration - this type of stream is like the Internet before Google…

Day 1
Day 2
Day 3

It’s been 4 days with a flow approach to receiving data. I skipped adding more people today and focused on getting used to the incoming content. It’s become easy to follow along, so I’ll be adding again. [...]

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Tags: Education · Flow · Prediction · Twitter · XMPP · eBooks

‘Flow’ - day 3 - the volume is up

March 26th, 2008 · Comments

The flow is going and it’s time for plumbing improvements and deeper details on this process…

Day 1
Day 2 

Image courtesy of Komax Systems
Day 3
The question most people have been asking is, “What is the flow like?” Many have described this amount of flow as unmanageable and anti-social. Here’s what I’ve learned first-hand by Day 3…
After wrapping [...]

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Tags: Education · Etiquette · Flow · Swarmtracking · Twitter · Web Services · iPhone

‘Flow’ - day 2

March 25th, 2008 · Comments

It’s day two of discovering and opening up the flow… (not to be confused with ‘Flow Theory‘)

A couple days ago, after months of thinking about how to consume more information, I was inspired by Scoble’s post to switch off of a standard HTTP Twitter API polling application (Twitterific) and move to a Jabber based client [...]

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Tags: Education · Etiquette · Flow · Twitter · iPhone

Sharing the love with Google Shared items

March 13th, 2008 · Comments

Google Reader has a great feature for sharing articles. It’s been a terrific way to share interesting and pertinent information affecting iofy and to give like-minded folks easy access to my favorite RSS feeds.
You can access my shared page here.
Or pull the feed here.
And with any luck, a drop of the most recent items will [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Education · Google · Managing · iofy

Keeping an organized workflow in Safari

March 5th, 2008 · Comments

Rather than letting long must-read articles interrupt my flow, I’m using Safari and tabs to keep things organized. Lifehacker got me thinking about this with their Firefox Serial Flow article, but I find it even more efficient in Safari (and I’m on the whole WebKit thing).
I simply keep a separate window and open pages I want to review later [...]

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Tags: Education · Managing